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Wed Feb 8



NASA Comet Hunter Spots Its Valentine
jpl.nasa.gov [NASA]
NASAs Stardust spacecraft is closing in on a Valentines Day date with comet Tempel 1. [...]




Wed Feb 8



WISE Makes Progress on Its Space Rock Catalog
jpl.nasa.gov [SPACE]
NASAs Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is busy surveying the landscape of the infrared sky, building up a catalog of cosmic specimens -- everything from distant galaxies to "failed" stars, called brown dwarfs. [...]




Tue Feb 7



Mars Science Laboratory – Product vs. Process
Space-Frontier-Foundation [MARS]
Dear Mars Science Laboratory team, Thank you! In the middle of a completely absurd debate about how much U.S. taxpayer money should be put into the pockets of congressional donors in the name of not building government rockets that will not support the opening of space in any way, you are going exploring. [...]




Wed Feb 8



Asteroid to Fly by Within Moons Orbit Thursday
jpl.nasa.gov [ASTEROID]
A newly discovered asteroid, 2010 GA6, will safely fly by Earth this Thursday at 7:06 p.m. Pacific (2:06 U.T.C.). [...]




Tue Feb 7



China Unveils High Resolution Global Moon Map
Universetoday [MOON]
Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of global Moon images on Monday, Feb. 6. The composite Lunar maps were created from over 700 individual images captured by China’s Chang’e-2 spacecraft and released by the country’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for [...]




Tue Feb 7



The Comet Cometh: Hartley 2 Visible in Night Sky
jpl.nasa.gov [COMET]
A comet that makes its closest approach to Earth this Wednesday, Oct. 20, will be scrutinized even more closely by a NASA spacecraft in a little over two weeks. [...]




Tue Feb 7



Special Delivery, Low-Earth Orbit Style!
Universetoday [EARTH]
When you're cruising along in low-Earth orbit, running out of supplies is not an option. Fortunately there are Progress vehicles: Russian spacecraft that carry much-needed supplies and equipment to the astronauts aboard the Space Station. The photo above, taken by Expedition 30 crew members, shows the unmanned Progress 46 vehicle approaching the ISS on January [...]




Tue Feb 7



Janice Voss, veteran astronaut, dies at 55
MSN [JANICE]
Astronaut Janice Voss, a veteran of five spaceflights and a former science director for a NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, has died after a battle with cancer. She was 55. [...]




Wed Feb 8



Best (Meteor) Shower of 2009 - No Towel Required
jpl.nasa.gov [METEOR]
Bundle up and get ready to watch a fiery lightshow stirred up by dead comets in Earths upper atmosphere during the cold of winter in the dead of night. [...]




Tue Feb 7



Science Getaways: Update
BadAstronomyBlog [WAY]
I love science. OK, duh, but I really do. And when I go on vacation, I can't help but see science everywhere, and in every case it makes the trip more fun for me. Seeing local geology, biology, how the stars might look different at a different latitude... it adds to the vacations, makes it better. That's why my wife and I started a company called Science Getaways. We figured there are lots of other folks out there like us who would really enjoy taking a vacation that has bonus science [...]

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